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Cookie Policy

Nutrivial.com — Last Updated: March 2026
Contents
  1. What Are Cookies?
  2. How We Use Cookies
  3. Cookie Consent and Your Choices
  4. Managing Cookies in Your Browser
  5. Cookies and Special Category Health Data
  6. Changes to This Cookie Policy
  7. Contact

1. What Are Cookies?

Cookies are small text files placed on your device (computer, tablet, or smartphone) when you visit a website. They allow the website to recognise your device and remember information about your visit, such as your preferences or consent choices.

Cookies are not programs and cannot carry viruses or access other information on your device.

2. How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for the following purposes, as reflected in the consent categories available in our cookie banner:

a. Necessary (Strictly Essential) Cookies — Always Active

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No consent required. These cookies are essential for the website to function. They cannot be disabled. They do not store any personally identifiable data and are never used for advertising.

Cookie / Provider Category Duration Purpose
Cookie consent preference Necessary 12 months Stores your cookie consent choices so you are not asked again on every visit
Session cookie (server) Necessary Session Maintains your session while navigating the website
CSRF / security token Necessary Session Protects form submissions against cross-site request forgery attacks

b. Functional Cookies — Consent Required

These cookies enable enhanced functionality and personalisation. The website will still work without them, but some features may be limited.

Cookie / Provider Category Duration Purpose
Language / region preference Functional 12 months Remembers your language or regional settings
Form pre-fill Functional Session Remembers data entered in forms to avoid you retyping it if you navigate away

c. Analytics Cookies — Consent Required

Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our website so we can improve it. These cookies collect information in aggregated, anonymised form. They do not identify individual visitors.

Cookie / Provider Category Duration Purpose
_ga (Google Analytics) Analytics 2 years Distinguishes unique users. Used to calculate visit, session, and campaign data.
_ga_XXXXXXXX (Google Analytics) Analytics 2 years Used to persist session state across pages.
_gid (Google Analytics) Analytics 24 hours Distinguishes users. Expires after 24 hours.
_gat (Google Analytics) Analytics 1 minute Used to throttle request rate to Google Analytics servers.
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Google Analytics — IP Anonymisation. We use Google Analytics with IP anonymisation enabled. Your IP address is truncated before any data is sent to Google's servers, so Google does not receive your full IP address. Google may process data on servers in the USA under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework.
Privacy policy: policies.google.com/privacy
Opt-out tool: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

d. Performance Cookies — Consent Required

Performance cookies collect information about how visitors use the website, such as which pages load slowly or generate errors. This data is used solely to improve website performance and reliability.

Cookie / Provider Category Duration Purpose
Performance monitoring cookie Performance Session or up to 30 days Measures page load times, error rates, and server response times to help diagnose technical issues

e. Advertisement / Marketing Cookies — Consent Required

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Important — Health Data and Advertising. Nutrivial.com collects sensitive health data from users of our coaching service and nutrition tool. We do not use health data, nutrition data, or coaching service data for advertising, retargeting, or profiling under any circumstances. Advertisement cookies on this website relate only to general website browsing behaviour (pages visited, time on site). They are never linked to your health data. If you do not consent to advertisement cookies, your health data is completely unaffected.

If you consent to advertisement cookies, the following third-party cookies may be set when you interact with embedded content or social media buttons on our website:

Cookie / Provider Category Duration Purpose
YouTube (Google LLC) Advertisement Up to 2 years Set when you watch an embedded YouTube video. May track viewing behaviour for personalised advertising on YouTube/Google platforms.
Facebook / Meta Pixel Advertisement Up to 90 days Set when you interact with Facebook social share buttons. Used by Meta to show you relevant ads on Facebook/Instagram.
LinkedIn Insight Tag Advertisement Up to 90 days Set when you interact with LinkedIn share buttons. Used by LinkedIn to measure ad campaign effectiveness.

These cookies are set by third-party companies under their own privacy policies:

3. Cookie Consent and Your Choices

When you first visit Nutrivial.com, a cookie banner will appear. You can:

Your consent choices are saved in a necessary cookie for 12 months. You can change your preferences at any time by clicking the Cookie Settings link in the website footer.

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Consent is freely given. We do not make access to the website conditional on accepting non-essential cookies. Refusing analytics, performance, or advertisement cookies has no effect on your ability to use the website or our services.

4. Managing Cookies in Your Browser

You can also manage or delete cookies directly through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to block all cookies, block third-party cookies only, or delete cookies that have already been set.

Please note that blocking necessary cookies will affect basic website functionality such as saving your consent preferences.

Browser guides for managing cookies:

5. Cookies and Special Category Health Data

Our nutrition analysis tool and coaching service collect special category health data (GDPR Art. 9). Cookies are not used to collect or transmit this health data.

Health data entered into the nutrition tool or coaching intake forms is transmitted securely via HTTPS and stored in our secure database — not in cookies.

Advertising and analytics cookies are strictly separated from all health and coaching data. Your health information is never shared with advertisers or analytics providers.

6. Changes to This Cookie Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to the cookies we use or applicable legal requirements. Updates will be published on this page with a revised date.

If we make material changes that affect how we use your data, we will seek fresh consent where required.

7. Contact

Questions About Cookies?

Nutrivial.com
Email: health@nutrivial.com
Website: https://www.nutrivial.com

We aim to respond to all enquiries within 30 days.

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